Cultural Environments  European prize for Svalbard Museum 19/12/2007 :: The Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen has been awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2008. The museum that displays Svalbard’s natural landscape and cultural history, competed against 59 other European museums for the award. + More |
Cultural Environments Cultural environments A cultural environment is an area in which monuments and objects form part of a larger entity or context. Nowadays it is considered important to preserve monuments and sites as part of an integrated whole, not just as individual buildings ... + More |
Cultural Environments  New Climate Center Opens in Norway 21/08/2007 :: Norway’s glacier museum launched its new climate change center by putting US Vice President Walter M. Mondale in a water pool and unplug it. + More |
World Heritage  Norwegian government grants NOK 3 million to African world heritage 13/09/2006 :: The government grant goes to the African World Heritage Fund. Norway is thus working to realise its commitments to UNESCO's convention on how to support nations that face particular challenges in the work with world heritage. + More |
World Heritage World heritage The UNESCO World Heritage List contains areas or objects that constitute an irreplaceable component of the world's cultural or natural heritage. The World Heritage Convention was drawn up in 1972 to provide special protection to sites ... + More |
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